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Early in the morning, executives are all business. Chitchat is kept to a minimum, and participants go right to work. Notes Rob Cornell, marketing director of Chicago's Ritz-Carlton hotel, where breakfast meetings have doubled in the past few years: "People are fresher in the morning...
...Curt Flood, 2. Nolan Ryan, Sandy Koufax, Rube Waddell. Bob Feller. Sam McDowell, Walter Johnson, Steve Carlton, Mickey Lolich. Vida Blue and J R Richard Waddell was the first to fan more than 300, doing it in 1903. 3. Gary Templetion in 1919. 4. a) Carl Mays 1920, b) Gill McDongald, c) Earl Averill. 5. California Angels: Reggie Jackdon, Fred Lynn, Don Baylor and Rod Carew, Kansas City Royals: Vida Blue, George Brett, Boston Red Sox: Carl Yazstremski, Jim Rice, Philadelphia Phillies: Pete Rose, Mike Sehmidt, Pittsburgh Pirates: Dave Parker, Willie Stargell, 6. Juan Marichal won 26 games...
...They've beaten Carlton twice." I said almost mechanically as I regained some composure and managed the trip back from the fridge with only minor difficulty. "Their offense is hot--Kingman and Foster are choking on opposite days--and they're getting some solid pitching from a staff of all-star has-beens--Randy Jones, Pat Zachry, Craig Swan...
...told him. "Okay, Here is every book on baseball ever written Don't go blind." Amusing and fascinating as well are brief sketches of many of the sport's characters--the "Zen master" Red Carew, the wonderfully honest Pete Rose, and the Darth Vader of the Major Leagues, Steve Carlton, among other notables. And let's not forget Hunt Mitchell III and Pickles Smith, among the not so-notables...
...catcher Carlton Fisk, who makes a habit of spoiling Boston home openers, then walloped the ball off the wall in left-center to give Chicago its second run. Fisk undoubtedly enjoys his visits to Fenway Park. Yesterday he went two for three with a walk and an RBI, and in last year's opener he had a three-run homer in the eighth to give the White...